Gay greenland
BASED ON the age of its characters, Last Night in Nuuk falls squarely in the Novel Adult market, and the novel closely aligns with current trends in that genre. In first-person, present-tense narration, the novel closely focuses on the chaotic inner lives of five young characters who are trying to make instinct of the individual world they’re entering in their native country of Greenland.
Because the lens is focused so tightly on their thoughts and feelings, you won’t learn much about Greenland from this novel. With the long, black night as a backdrop, these new, angst-ridden characters could be living their chaotic, egocentric lives just as easily in Duluth or Dublin. We act learn some native words and names and a local expression or two, but the geographical setting doesn’t impose itself onto the story much more than to remind us occasionally that we’re in Greenland. There are a few pages where a young dude named Inuk cynically makes a list of Greenlandic characteristics, which is as close as the book gets to any revelations about the island’s people: “You’re a Greenlander when you’re an alcoholic. You’re a Greenlander when you beat your spouse. … You’re a Greenlander when you’
Jens Rydström
Modernity and periphery: The sexual modernisation of Greenland
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Summary, in English
The paper will argue that the centre-periphery dynamics of the modernisation of sexuality is more complex and difficult to grasp than is usually shown in homosexual studies and gay history. Existing historiography on the emerging of a modern gay and womxn loving womxn identity has failed to explore the links between different sites for the emergence of a gay and lesbian subculture.
The contacts between Greenland and German and Danish missionaries, from the eighteenth century onward, profoundly influenced Inuit concepts of sexuality by imposing Christian norms of sexual restraint. The accelerating colonial domination of Greenland culminated in a conscious effort to “modernise” Greenlandic society from the 1950s onward. Danish presence in Greenland increased from a handful of merchants and colonial officers to a substantial population of construction workers, economists, teachers, and bureaucrats. Did the colonisation of Greenland also influence Danish discourses on masculinity and sexuality? For metropolitan Danes, Greenland represe
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16 August - 5 October
This year, on 14 June, Nuuk was the setting for the country's 5th Gay Pride. In a culture, in which homosexuals experience verbal threats and are attacked and harassed, holding a Pride in the capital is a major event. As is the case with Prides in the rest of the world, the event is a powerful manifestation of the existence of a non-heterosexual culture. It is a fact that has been historically suppressed in Greenland, despite the fact that several of the country's historical legends and myths actually deal with the subject.
In recent years, however, the subject has become less of a taboo, and the series of Gay Prides in Nuuk has played a positive role in this development. During the 2011 and 2012 Prides, the photojournalist Jørgen Chemnitz and the then director of NAPA (the Nordic Institution in Greenland), Leise Johnsen collaborated on an exhibition project entitled Gay Greenland, which was to be the first ever visual documentation of homosexuality in Greenland.
The exhibition gives faces and words to a minority in the history of Greenland, which has traditionally been silent and only partially observable. During the 2011 and 201
Gay Guide Greenland
Greenland is not only the world's largest island that is not a continent, but also the least populated land or administrative region in the nature. Greenland is no longer regarded as a colony since 1953, but as another administrative district of Denmark that is in doctrine equal to the others. In 1979, the Greenlanders' resistance to the Danish administration led to internal autonomy. In 1996, Greenland became the fourth land in the society to introduce registered partnerships, thanks to its links with Denmark. Gay marriage was introduced in 2016 and mutual adoption is now also possible for homosexuals as good. The first CSD in Nuuk in 2010 brought together over a thousand participants, making it the second largest demonstration ever held in the territory. There are only very few places in Greenland where gay men can meet. This is mainly due to the small population but also to the long, shadowy winters and lack of roads, as boats are the main means of transport. The internet has become the most popular medium for social contacts. There is only one gay-friendly location in Nuuk.
Cities in Greenland
Location: Greenland is located between the Arctic